Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pultenaea linophylla

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Princes Highway north of Bodalla

Line drawings. a. flowering stem; leaves and stipules; flower. J Armstrong, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Halo bush-pea

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Shrub, prostrate or to 1 m tall. Bark smooth. Stems sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-3 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, often concave in cross section, tips blunt, margins often curved down, tips blunt; upper surface hairless, darker than the lower surface, lower surface hairy; midrib prominent. Flowers 6-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange with red markings, wings yellow to red, keel red to purple. Bracteoles boat-shaped to linear, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in dense clusters. Flowers most of the year. Pods densely to sparsely hairy, smooth.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~linophylla  (accessed 2 February, 2021)

Description partly taken from:  Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2004) A revision of the genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 3. The eastern species with curved down leaves. Australian Systematic Botany 17(3): 296-297, Fig. 9 (map)